Books Quotes

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

~ John Witherspoon

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. (1872)

~ Victor Hugo

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it.

~ William Wordsworth

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

~ Lionel Barrymore

I wrote David because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

~ Anne Holm

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.

~ Amit Kalantri

Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.

~ Bozorgmehr

Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?

~ Ken Poirot

...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.

~ Patricia Engel

The world of books is the wealth of being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered.

~ X. Williamson

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.

~ Violet Haberdasher

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

~ Oprah Winfrey

No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.

~ Erin Bow

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself When did they live? I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.

~ C. Joybell C.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

~ Jessamyne West

…We feel different things. We like different things. It’s like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book. It’s the same with music, yo.

~ Fox Benwell

Let your love for books grow, as your confidence grows too.

~ Liza Osae-Kwapong

A book is like life, there are only so many chapters.

~ Liza D. Osae-Kwapong

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~ Irina Binder

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

~ Jacqueline Kelly

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

~ Haruki Murakami

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

~ Vincent Starrett

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

~ Benjamin J. Carey

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

~ Anthony Trollope

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

~ Roman Payne

In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.

~ A. Edward Newton

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.

~ Arthur Machen

Coffee and books are a simple recipe for happiness.

~ Nourhan Mamdouh

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.

~ R. Y.s. Perez

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

~ Gabrielle Dubois

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

~ Compton Gage

They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.

~ Compton Gage

Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.

~ Compton Gage

Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

~ Compton Gage

What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?

~ Compton Gage

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.

~ Compton Gage

Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.

~ Compton Gage

As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.

~ Compton Gage